[Fictionary] PIGWIDGEON results!

[Fran Poodry]

I think 2+1+1=4, but with all that has happened in 2016 maybe I'm wrong.
;-)

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 5:28 AM eLLioTT morEton <em at swarpa.net> wrote:

> Dear Fictionary,
>
> Pierre's stone-lifter edges out Josh's iron wedge and Jean-Joseph's fish
> to capture the laurels this time.
>
> I had expected some defs involving widgeons (a kind of duck), but didn't
> get any.  Several of yall, being better-read than I, knew something about
> this word that I did not:
>
> Linda:  Hmm, I saw this word somewhere --could it have been in an old Natl
> Geog?
>
> Hutch:  When eLLioTT posted this word, I was thinking it sounded familiar.
> But when I saw the ballot, I remembered why I thought it familiiar. ... I
> think! ... Unless I'm mistooken, "Pigwidgeon" was the name of one of the
> owls that delivered messages to Harry Potter's Gryffindor housemates at
> Hogwart's. We shall see ...
>
> Jean-Joseph:  Huh.  I thought it sounded familiar.  It's apparently also
> the name of Ron Weasley's first pet owl.
>
> Haul it away, Pierre!
>
> Regards,
> em
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> pigwidgeon (v.t.)  To force an oversized joint of meat into a pot or
> kettle.
>
> JACOB 2 = Ranjit 2
>
> Hutch:  Very tempting! Had I not decided it had to be something fairy, I
> coulda gone here. Give this one an imaginary tie-breaker vote.
>
> Ranjit:  2 points for the pig-wedging
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> pigwidgeon (n.)  In Welsh lore, a spirit of benevolent chaos which visits
> farms and stirs up animals and objects.  Visits result in lost items being
> found, recovery of relationships gone bad, and refreshing change.
>
> FRAN 2 = Linda 2  Hutch 1  correct guess 1
>
> Linda:  Two points for the Welsh benevolent spirit if it cleans up some of
> my clutter.
>
> Hutch:  Due to the link to Harry Potter, I'm voting for the fairy tale
> definitions: 1 point
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> pigwidgeon (n.)  A sugar packet used as a wedge to prop up a wobbly table.
> (v.) To use a pigwidgeon.
>
> RANJIT 0
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> pigwidgeon (n.)  The fattest clay pigeon that can be shot out of the
> skeet-throwing machine.
>
> LINDA 2 = David 2
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> pigwidgeon (n.)  A device for lifting a stone, consisting of several parts
> that
> are assembled in a hole in the top of the stone.
>
> PIERRE 4 = Fran 2  Jean-Joseph 1  correct guess 1
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> pigwidgeon (n.)  A whortleberry tart.
>
> DAVID 0
>
> Hutch:  Also tempting, but from a different point of view. I'm hungry!
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> pigwidgeon (n.)  1.  A fairy, dwarf, imp, or elf.  2.  (Derogatory) A
> small or insignificant person or thing; a stupid or contemptible person.
>
> OED 6 = Fran 1  Pierre 1  Hutch 2  Jean-Joseph 2
>
> Hutch:  Due to the link (?) to Harry Potter, i'm voting for the fairy tale
> definitions. As my recollection seems to indicate that the owl named
> Pigwidgeon was a very small owl, I'm giving this one my 2-point vote: 2
> points
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> pigwidgeon (n.)  A wedge of iron, used to support a piece of iron which is
> being shaped.
>
> JOSH 3 = Pierre 2  David 1
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> pigwidgeon (n.)  A blue and yellow fish, sometimes with spots, sometimes
> with warts.
>
> JEAN-JOSEPH 3 = Linda 1  Ranjit 1  correct guess 2
>
> Pierre:  Of what family? What shape? Any other features? This is about as
> vague as the
> dogdrave.
>
> Ranjit:  1 point for the fishy fish fish
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> pigwidgeon (n.)  Under Elizabethan pre-Imperial unit standardization, the
> amount of wood that one subject may take from a royal forest each winter
> month.
>
> NICK 0
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
>
> HUTCH submitted no def, but gets 2 points for a correct guess.
>
>
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> Joke defs:
>
>
> pigwidgeon (n.)  A tove with a doupee.
>
> JEAN-JOSEPH
>
>
> pigwidgeon (n.) - the feeling of sheer joy felt on election night when
> your favored candidate, against all probability, wins
>
> DAVID
>
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